Kindness & Generosity Elevate Vibrations
Beautify from the outside In.
Grace beckons always.
Travel lightly and vibrate
higher. Forgive. Love.
I love the above image that I took of this epic mushroom. It was a summer fungi in the Smoky Mountains. This natural phenomenon of damp shade and decomposed matter presents a generous environment for mushrooms to grow. We can learn simple things from this image including the idea of the earth’s generosity of having the right conditions for fungi to flourish.
Do you flourish when in a tough situation instead of getting into a frenzy? I sometimes do both. I used to (and sometimes still do) feel anxiety about what something will be like. This turns situations into tension and frustration. It feels tense and everything feels forced. Even those around me feel the tension. Does this happen to you?
Restoring ease.
What I know is that feeling tension is a unique form of your body’s language. By understanding these cues, we can better attend to and support our experience. Making better decisions about how to comport ourselves in situations, we can elevate the vibration of those around us. By choosing to detach from the issue just enough, we can be kind to ourselves (and others) in tough situations.
What happens when we take care of ourselves like a good friend? If we can honor our feelings and take action to be congruent with what we know to be true and important beyond my personal feelings. In Sanskrit, the word for this is pratyahara, प्रत्याहार, which means “gathering towards” or “withdrawal of the senses”. When we cultivate the ability to do this with some skill, we elevate from the tough situation to an experience of concentration and meditation.
Pratyahara enables us to synthesize the five senses: taste, touch, taste and smell in a way that invites the other body sense like intuition or ajna, आज्ञा, Both recognized and unrecognized sense awareness can be cultivated with pratyahara because to withdraw means that we recognize the senses from which we withdraw.
Unyielding kindness and generosity are just two simple outcomes of pratyahara. As we take our awareness away from ourselves and move toward our community, we see that kindness and generosity becomes a vibrational currency that is elevating. When kindness and generosity is flowing for me, I find that I can work through tough times with consciousness.
The conscious presence is the ultimate dream, right?
Mindfulness, zen practices, and intentions allow us to bring awareness to our consciousness. In my view, being a conscious person allows us to be present in our senses. Both yogic and buddhist cultures value mindfulness as a precedent to meditation.
During a tough moment in my life, I began practicing meditation in a large group setting. It added depth to my meditation practice and offered the opportunity to be in a room with an elevated vibration. When you practice together, the frequency of a group of calm people, each, in a state of meditation, becomes stronger.
The first step if you are new to this practice.
Creating the space for you to vibrate higher in a group or solo setting begins with vibrational connection to your external surroundings. Check out my slide show from my IG account to help you learn how to vibrate higher as you to engage with the world. This is the first step before sense withdrawal, mindfulness, and meditation.
If you have considered going deeper to learn face yoga that is lasting, I want to invite you to my 3-session virtual live workshop series to get you motivated to add face yoga to your life forever! Check out the link below to learn more about this upcoming event:
This free weekly newsletter is set up to radiate positivity into the world. Please look out for the Beautify Face Yoga newsletter tomorrow featuring a video to help you correct asymmetries in your facial features. This is particularly helpful for anyone who is on a healing journey from an injury or surgeries to the head, neck, or décolleté. Healing face yoga is a big part of my practice, as I teach for Cancer Lifeline.
Next week I begin a Yoga Nidra 3-part series with them. This is a free class and I am excited to share my new Yoga Nidra certification with the wider community. Check out the complete upcoming schedule below:
I am thrilled to be part of the Divine Yoga Studio teacher line up in this fall’s Yoga Teacher Training (YTT)! I teach Yin Yoga to yoginis and yogis to help them round out their 200HR training. It is an honor to teach new yoga teachers and I am so grateful for this opportunity!
You can join me for a live Restorative Yoga Class each and every Sunday at 7PM for a 60 minute session of deep restoration to guide you into a fresh start for the coming week. Erase the tensions in your body and be ready to problem-solve and adapt to all that lies ahead.
Angela is a a certified Face Yoga Method Instructor, as well as 500HR Registered Yoga Alliance Teacher, and a AAPNA member and certified Ayurvedic Digestive Health Counselor. I work with women over 35 years and have been enjoying this path of helping them beautify themselves and the world around them through holistic practices and nourishment. I am also a content creator for health and beauty apps and online magazines. Angela currently teaches at Divine Yoga Studio in San Francisco, and virtually for Cancer Lifeline.